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A crafted 16-bit grayscale PNG image may lead to a out-of-bounds write in the heap area. An attacker may take advantage of that to cause heap data corruption or eventually arbitrary code execution and circumvent secure boot protections. This issue has a high complexity to be exploited as an attacker needs to perform some triage over the heap layout to achieve signifcant results also the values written into the memory are repeated three times in a row making difficult to produce valid payloads. This flaw affects grub2 versions prior grub-2.12.

🗓️ 05 Oct 2023 07:00:00Reported by MicrosoftType 
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Crafted 16-bit grayscale PNG may cause heap write in GRUB, enabling code execution and boot bypass.

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19 Feb 2026 09:01Current
6.5Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.5
CVSS 24.4
CVSS 3.14.5
EPSS0.00462
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